Today’s generation, bought up on iTunes, MP3 players, You Tube and satellite television may never have experienced the full fidelity of an uncompressed audio recording; but how can you get 3,000 songs in a smartphone without some compromise?

Join us for the July meeting of the San Francisco section of SMPTE, in conjunction with our colleagues from the local AES chapter, when, with a panel of audio experts, we debate the pros and cons of compression schemes for audio.

I think it was ABC that coined the phrase ‘Up Close and Personal’ for their Olympic Games broadcasts, which seemingly defines the viewer’s experience of watching a live event on TV. By the nature of the television screen’s size and single point of focus of a lens, live event coverage is more of a point of view and less of the experience of being immersed into the event when attending.

The cloud is everywhere! From e-commerce to storage, cloud services are becoming commonplace, driving businesses like Amazon and Netflix. Amazon Web Services is a leader in providing global cloud services for many different industry segments, including Media and Entertainment..

Bhavik Vyas will discuss current cloud services for Media and Entertainment and how a number of companies are using the cloud in their media business. Amazon Web Services will be announcing a number of new product offerings at NAB in April, and Bhavik will discuss these in detail as well.